1 January 2018

My wishes!!

Today is
the first day of the new year 2018, it’s time to write our wishes,
it’s time to make a plan for the new year. I wrote I
wanted the three kings brought me an AS for 2016 and I got it
because Ariadnex manages the Autonomous Systems where Ariolo Cloud is
hosted. I also wrote I
didn’t want more toysfor
2017 but procedures, methodologies, methods and security
policies and it seems some companies have realised they need
information security specialist to protect their services instead of
spending their money in more appliances. Therefore, I’m going to
write about my wishes for this new year, which perhaps are a little
bit ambitious but I have to try.

This
year is going to be my fourth year with the CISA
certificationand
my third year with the CISM
certification thus I need to keep
learning about Information Security to be updated and to maintain
these certifications through CPEs(Continuing
Professional Education).
As a result, I need to attend
webinars and conferences, I need to deliver training courses,
I need to keep studying. The Importance
of Security at CUM was my unique
speech last year but Security
Courses on Networks and Systems,
and the Ethical
Hacking Course were enough to get
my annually CPEs. Therefore, I would like
to maintain these certifications delivering security courses again.

When I was
at high school, I failed English exams from time to time, today, I’m
writing in English language and I’m also able to speak in English.
When I was at high school, I learnt a little bit of French language,
today, I’m learning French at Official School of Languages and I
passed A1 level of French last year. Learning a new language
is time-consuming but it’s rewarding, thus, this is another wish
for 2018, I want to pass A2 level of French.

I think
security engineers have a lot of work to do into Industrial Control
Systems (ICS) because most ICS are outdated, they were designed
without taking into account the security, and they are increasingly
connected to networks. In addition, the last malwares designed to
attack ICS, like Stuxnet,
Havex, Blackenergy2, CrashOverride, and now TRITON,
are powerful malwares which can cause damage to the society.
Therefore, I would like to go deeper into ICS to protect Critical
Infrastructure Systems for this new year 2018.

I would
like to learn a lot of thing but I want to learn further about
Ethical Hacking. In fact, I would like to apply for OSCP
certification. We’ll see. On the other hand, my CCNP
certification expires next year, 2019, thus I don’t know
yet if I’m going to start studying for another certification like
CCNP Data Center because I would like to know how Nexus switches
work. We’ll also see. Security and networking into a cloud
computing environment is challenging thus I would like to learn how
to deploy Web Apps safer into a cloud computing infrastructure like
AWS
Cloud. Once again, we’ll also see.

To sum up,
CISA and CISM certification maintenance, studying French language,
working with ICS and Critical Infrastructure Systems, and studying
ethical hacking, networking and cloud computing. Maybe, I’m a
little bit ambitious but I have 365 days to get it.